The first toll of the shooting at Perm State University in Russia where a man broke in and opened fire on students and professors is at least eight dead and a dozen injured. This was reported by the Russian Interior Ministry. The Perm University killer had barricaded himself in a classroom and put up armed resistance: “he was neutralized”, the Russian media announced, after the news of his arrest was initially given.
The assailant of the Perm campus would have been identified – reports the Telegram Bazn channel considered close to the security agencies – as Timur Bekmansurov, 18, enrolled in the first year of law. Bekmansurov, according to the Perm news site, allegedly left a Facebook post before taking action in which he anticipated the attack and the motives. “It wasn’t a terrorist attack. I am not a member of extremist organizations. Nobody knew what I was going to do. I organized everything by myself », is the text of the post. Bekmamsurov speaks of himself as a person “overwhelmed by hatred”. He has also planned the attack for some time: the local authorities are still looking for potential accomplices.
The assailant targeted one of the university buildings, injuring more lightly other people besides those declared by the Russian Interior Ministry. Numbers destined to rise in these hours, as reported by Tass, the official Russian news agency, also citing the preliminary account of the scenes in Perm from a source: “Some boys have closed themselves in university auditoriums to hide from the attacker, others are jumped out of the windows. ‘ Vladimir Putin expresses deep condolences to the families and friends of the people killed in the Perm University shooting. The Kremlin makes it known.
